The social media maven that time seems to have forgotten has perhaps just thrown down the gauntlet in the world of social profiles.

To be honest, this is the one place where MySpace always really excelled, and something that Facebook is sorely missing.

Our image at the right is of the personal page for MySpace exec Sean Percival.  He hit Twitter with what we can only call an unofficial  announcement just a couple hours ago.

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MySpace, LinkedIn and now Facebook, Microsoft  continues adding social network sites to Outlook, to enable the users of its email client to view updates from their friends on the social networking sites without log on to the site and to do it all in real-time. Microsoft has introduced an add-on “People Pane” to the Outlook from where users can access the profile and updates of their Facebook friends.

"You can view your social network as you look through your email to stay connected with your friends, family, and colleagues," said Paco Contreras Herrera, Group Product Manager, Microsoft Office. In February, Microsoft released a plug-in named ‘Outlook Social Connector’ that allowed the users of Outlook to directly access their LinkedIn contacts. Later in March, the company integrated MySpace to the email client.

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Clovis’ James Walker and Rio Rancho’s Torie Iverson participated in the New Mexico Press Association’s annual high school journalism workshop last month. They wrote this story for The Future Press newspaper: Many technological advances in American culture have helped teens in many ways. Popularity of different online social networks has driven people to use each service in different ways. Each social networking site on the world-wide web has different features that both teens and adults prefer.

James: I prefer Facebook because of the cool features and notifications. Torie: I prefer MySpace because I find it easier to operate and there are not so many fan clubs and other apps that are unimportant. I also do not like how Facebook notifies you on other people’s actions. I do not need to know that someone commented on a friend’s status or commented on their pictures.

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Many of the posts use strong curse words and are sexually suggestive. Comments posted on MySpace from Memon's account show feelings and activities indicative of an adolescent in today's world, says one counselor. Memon's Myspace page is no longer available. The comments appear on the page of a man claiming to be 19-years-old and from Madison.

Memon's account made 14 posts from July to October of last year. A post from August 1, after Memon had just turned 14, reads, "I'll try not to --- up, but trouble seems to follow me. National Children's Advocacy Center Director Chris Newlin examined the posts. He says, "A lot of the stuff on there is relatively normal, adolescent discussion and activity that probably is not too dissimilar from people who have ever been a teenager.

A couple months later, in October of 2009, another post from Memon's Myspace account appeared. This time - there was an accusation about Memon's father. Again - Newlin says this statement is not out of the ordinary for adolescents.

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A local man accused in the kidnapping of a 14-year-old girl he met on MySpace is now facing new charges. Richard Sabatasse, 26, was in court today for a hearing.He is accused of meeting the girl in Connellsville, then bringing her back to his home where he allegedly held her against her will for two days. Sabatasse is now facing four new charges including statutory sexual assault, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, indecent assault and furnishing alcohol to minors.

The new charges were filed just before today's hearing was set to begin on the kidnapping charges that stemmed from the alleged luring on MySpace. In light of the new charges, the hearing was continued until July 22. Sabatasse had nothing to say to the media today on the advice of his attorney.

A twenty year old man met a fifteen year old girl from MySpace and has sex with her. The man is arrested in Clearwater, FL. Amazingly; the two began dating on April 21st of this year. On April 24, Brandon O. Henderson had sex with the fifteen year old girl. After they had sex, the man learns the age of the girl. The question is why didn't Brandon ask the girl her age before he had sex with her. Did he or did he not care? He had sex seven times with the fifteen year old girl. If he cared, he waited another six times to care.

Brandon O. Henderson is charged with molesting a fifteen year old girl who he met on MySpace. Some people may blame the girl for getting herself in the situation with twenty year old Brandon. Brandon is at fault because he is considered an adult who was having sex with a child. Brandon Henderson will likely be a registered sex offender for the rest of his life.

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MySpace announced Wednesday afternoon that it has integrated the site into Windows Live Messenger and Hotmail. According to the firm, the integration allows users of Messenger and Hotmail to sync status updates between MySpace and Messenger, see MySpace contacts within Messenger's dashboard, comment on MySpace status updates within Messenger, and email MySpace contacts from Hotmail. MySpace said it will begin rolling out the beta integration of the features to their users tomorrow.

When Owen Van Natta came in as MySpace CEO in the summer of 2009, he gave valuable employees a two-part retention bonus. The first part paid out immediately. Sources tell us the second pays out in July. After it pays out, everyone expects there's going to be an exodus. Conservatives estimates put the figure at 10% to 20% of MySpace headcount.

"Real talent is shored up though," says one source, who also points out that at cost-heavy MySpace, "attrition is not necessarily a bad thing." Yesterday, MySpace co-president Jason Hirschhorn announced he was leaving the company. He sent employees this memo:

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A name like Lucy And The Caterpillar, for instance, conjures up images of a series of children’s book about a lovable fuzzy garden creature and its owner, Lucy. Despite our best wishes for this to be true, we know that our slightly moronic side is coming out.

However, what we have discovered is a lovely tinkering of happy acoustic pop songs with lyrics that may not contain any direct logical message, but have fun and warmth behind them. Only two songs are up for our enjoyment, but they are some of the loveliest tunes we’ve heard. The musicianship is second to none and sounds like something recorded in a big posh studio with thousands of buttons on an overpriced mixing desk.

MySpace on Monday named Dmitry Shapiro as its new chief technology officer of MySpace Music.

Effective immediately, Shapiro is responsible for all aspects of technical developments for the MySpace Music platform, including the next iteration of artist profiles and tools, as well as the overall music experience on MySpace.

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